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It's a big topic - so let's try to get it down to the bare essentials. Cut and paste this page into a new page on your Unit 8 notebook and use it as the beginning of a new set of notes on the early years of the Cold War.

AN ILLUSTRATED DEFINTION OF THE COLD WARInsert your illustrated and annotated PowerPoint slide here

Major events, ideas, topics, and people - from class, Creating America, and ABC-CLIO

THE YALTA CONFERENCE
  • Meeting near the end of WWII - big 3 meet to discuss post war Europe
  • Germany will be divided, controlled by the Allies
  • Liberated Eastern European countries will have new elections
  • United Nations will be formed
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THE UNITED NATIONS
  • It was a concil of 15 nations that came together to help solve promblems.
  • International Peace keeping
  • Started in April of 1945
  • World War to helped the nations want to join the peace organazation.
  • Replaced the League of Nations
CONTAINMENT
  • The U.S and others Democratic nations wanted to contain communism, not allowing it to spread to other nations.
  • One big event that worried the U.S about containing communism was when Soviet Union took over china.
  • We didn't want vietam to turn communist.
  • Try to push back the Red
  • Military and non-military ways
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THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE
  • The Truman Doctrine promised to aim or to help people resist communism.
  • Stay in democracy
  • This was part of Containment
THE MARSHALL PLAN
  • To give western and eastern nations 13 billion dollars to help them rebuild.
  • Named after Truamn secetary of state
  • A plan to revive the worn torn economy of European countries
  • Soviets didn't want the U.S money, they would allow countries with communism to take the money either.
  • Truman tried to drop food into the city of berlin. (wouldn't take any help.)
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THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
  • Stalin was blocking the way for the americans to come in.
  • Wouldn't allow american to help.
  • Food shortages
  • Stalin was afraid that germany would unit and be a threat to the Soviet Union.
  • Drops: happen for around a year
  • Stalin stopped blocking the way 1949
NATO
  • Nato was allaince of Canada, United States, and ten western European Nations
  • All anti-communism
  • In response to the alliance the Soivet and eastern European nations formed the Warsawa pact.
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COMMUNISM IN CHINA
  • Soviet Union took over China
  • Became a communist country
  • Leader Mao Zedong became head of communist nation
  • many fled to taiwan
  • Afraid that communism would take over the world.
THE KOREAN WAR
No need to take notes - you will have a different assignment and activity

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MCCARTHYISM
  • Senator from Wisconsin
  • Filed law suit againest people who were supposly for communism
  • Never proved a case
  • Laid off from being senator
  • Red Scare
  • Communist spies.
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THE SPACE RACE